FREDDIE MERCURY'S CATTY SECRET

FREDDIE MERCURY'S CATTY SECRET

DEVON, England (Wireless Flash) -- Flamboyant Queen frontman Freddie Mercury had a catty secret: he loved his pet cats so much that he would make long distance calls to them. According to Mercury's former personal assistant, Peter Freestone, the late singer kept a menagerie of felines which he would telephone while touring and meow to them over the phone. Incredibly, the cats always knew it was Freddie and would often purr and meow right back at him. Freestone is author of the new book "Freddie Mercury: An Intimate Memoir By the Man Who Knew Him Best" (Omnibus).